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--- model_evaluation [2009/04/01 09:36] – thorsten
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 **Mean, minimum, maximum:**
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-surface pressure, mean-sea-level pressure, 2-m temperature, 10-m (lowest model level) temperature, 10-m (lowest model level) specific humidity, soil surface temperature, surface temperature, surface specific humidity, surface runoff, subsurface runoff, averaged surface net downward shortwave radiation, averaged surface net downward longwave radiation, averaged surface sensible heat flux, averaged surface latent heat flux, surface evaporation, u_10m, v_10m, windspeed_10m.
+surface pressure, mean-sea-level pressure, 2-m temperature, 10-m (lowest model level) temperature, 10-m (lowest model level) specific humidity, soil surface temperature, surface temperature, surface specific humidity, surface runoff, subsurface runoff, averaged surface net downward shortwave radiation, averaged surface net downward longwave radiation, averaged surface sensible heat flux, averaged surface latent heat flux, surface evaporation, u_10m, v_10m, windspeed_10m; constant variables: land area fraction, root depth, vegetation area fraction, leaf area index.
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 **Mean, minimum, maximum, median, standard deviation:**
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-model surface height, total water content, vertically integrated cloud ice, vertically integrated cloud water, atmospheric boundary layer height (above msl), CAPE, CAPE_CON (only COSMO-EU), CAPE_ML (only COSMO-DE).
+ total water content, vertically integrated cloud ice, vertically integrated cloud water, atmospheric boundary layer height (above msl), CAPE (parcel ascent from lowest model level, contributions from positive buoyancy only), CAPE_CON (only COSMO-EU), CAPE_ML (only COSMO-DE); constant variable: model surface height.
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 **Mean, minimum, maximum, median, standard deviation, frequency distribution:**
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-total cloud cover, cloud cover of high clouds, cloud cover of medium clouds, cloud cover of low clouds, precipitable water (IWV), vertically averaged vertical velocity,  vertically averaged absolute wind velocity, total precipitation amount, gridscale rain, gridscale snow, gridscale graupel (COSMO-DE only), convective precipitation amount (COSMO-EU only), gridscale rainfall rate (COSMO-DE only), gridscale snowfall rate (COSMO-DE only), gridscale graupelfall rate (COSMO-DE only), height of convective cloud base, height of convective cloud top, cloud (>0.01) base height, cloud (>0.5) base height, cloud (gridscale only) base height, gridscale liquid-water cloud base height, cloud optical thickness, cloud top pressure, SynSat MSG brightness temperature, radar reflectivity in 850 hPa (COSMO-DE only), column maximum radar reflectivity (COSMO-DE only).
+total cloud cover, cloud cover of high clouds, cloud cover of medium clouds, cloud cover of low clouds, precipitable water (IWV), vertically averaged vertical velocity,  vertically averaged absolute wind velocity, total precipitation amount, gridscale rain, gridscale snow, gridscale graupel (COSMO-DE only), convective precipitation amount (COSMO-EU only), gridscale rainfall rate (COSMO-DE only), gridscale snowfall rate (COSMO-DE only), gridscale graupelfall rate (COSMO-DE only), height of convective cloud base, height of convective cloud top, cloud (>0.01) base height, cloud (>0.5) base height, cloud (gridscale only) base height, gridscale liquid-water cloud base height, cloud optical thickness (several methods), cloud top pressure (several methods), SynSat MSG brightness temperature, radar reflectivity in 850 hPa (COSMO-DE only), column maximum radar reflectivity (COSMO-DE only).
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 **Mean, frequency distribution in 72 bins from 0.0 to 360.0:**
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 **Frequency distribution in 9 bins:**
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-soiltyp.
+constant variable: soiltyp.
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+One netcdf file per model (COSMO-DE/COSMO-EU) each with all forecasts valid for all areas for a particular day. Variable names in netcdf file are mostly analogue to those in the COSMO model.
 For full information see example output of netcdf -h:
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-{{arst_lmk_ncdump.ps|arst_lmk_ncdump.ps}} for COSMO-DE
+{{arst_lmk_ncdump.ps|arst_lmk_ncdump.ps}} for COSMO-DE.
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-{{arst_lme_ncdump.ps|arst_lme_ncdump.ps}} for COSMO-EU
+{{arst_lme_ncdump.ps|arst_lme_ncdump.ps}} for COSMO-EU.
 ;-- //[[crewell@meteo.uni-koeln.de|Susanne Crewell]] 2007/01/10 14:41//